Death of a Salesman - (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Arthur Miller (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press, 1949"--T.p. verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream <p/>A Penguin Classic</b> <p/> Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theater. Willy Loman, the protagonist of <i>Death of a Salesman</i>, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Christopher W. E. Bigsby.<br><p>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age sixty-three, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama</b><br><b>Winner of the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters</b> <p/>By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater. --Brooks Atkinson, <i>The New York Times</i> <p/>So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it. --<i>Time</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Arthur Miller (1915-2005)</b> was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include <i>All My Sons</i> (1947), <i>Death of a Salesman</i> (1949), <i>The Crucible</i> (1953), <i> A View from the Bridge</i> and<i> A Memory of Two Mondays </i>(1955), <i>After the Fall</i> (1963), <i>Incident at Vichy</i> (1964), <i>The Price</i> (1968), <i>The Creation of the World and Other Business</i> (1972) and <i>The American Clock</i> (1980). He also wrote two novels, <i> Focus</i> (1945), and <i>The Misfits</i>, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for <i>In Russia</i> (1969), <i>Chinese Encounters</i> (1979), and <i>In the Country</i> (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir, <i>Timebends</i> (1987); the plays <i>The Ride Down Mt. Morgan</i> (1991), <i>The Last Yankee</i> (1993), <i>Broken Glass</i> (1994), and <i>Mr. Peter's Connections</i> (1999); <i>Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000</i>; and <i>On Politics and the Art of Acting </i>(2001). He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miller was the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003. <p/><b>Christopher Bigsby</b> is a professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He edited the Penguin Classics editions of Miller's <i>The Crucible</i>, <i>Death of a Salesman</i>, and <i>All My Sons</i>.
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